[Red_Devil 232]

Ping to the Weekly Gardening Ping List.

I hope all of you will stop by.

This is typically a low volume ping list. Once a week for the thread and every once in a while for other FR threads posted that might be of interest.

If you would like to be added to or removed from the list please let me know by FreepMail or by posting to me.

[pennboricua]

Please add me to your list, would be nice to see pictures of harvest at end of summer.

[neefer]

Hi Red Devil, could you add me to the list too? Thanks.

[who knows what evil?]

I can’t believe that I had to bring my hot peppers INSIDE to avoid the cold in mid-July...unreal.

[Arrowhead1952]

My tomatoes are just about done for the summer season. I will probably trim them back within the next two weeks. I still have some yellow pear and other small salad tomatoes that are still putting on new fruit.

We are setting records for 100+ days here in central Texas. I think it is over 20 or 30 days in June and July. I’ve lost one peach tree and my apricot tree is almost dead too. Water rationing is on the way.

Like someone commented the other day: “It is so hot and dry here, the trees are whistling for dogs to stop by and wet them down”.

[wastoute]

Dude! Add me to the ping list. We are buying a few acres soon as an investment so we will be able to eat in the future. My grandparents (one of whom was actually a farmer) knew how to feed the family with an acre or so (out back). This knowledge is lost now so I have been trying to prepare for next year when I hope to start my "Victory garden". I have been reading "One Straw" website and links and starting to consider a book or two to help with my "less than one acre farm".

I am reading about growing small plots, no-till techniques, and chicken tractors but still have many questions. Can you recommend a book that details which flowers attract predator insects, plot rotations, lists of plants to grow to maximize the harvest through the year, etc.?

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[HiramQuick]

Several of you have emailed or posted questions to me the past two weeks. I have not purposely ignored you, just have been out of town for a little R/R and a little business as well. Yikes .... 10 days of neglect of a garden can make it look like a jungle.

I’ll get back to you all later. I may be swallowed up by the jungle. No rain yet weeeds thrive and multiply. There is something so very wrong with that .... but it happens all the time.

Green beans out the kazoo ... and my first Rutgers tomatoe of the year fresh off the vine. I tell you, it is almost better than ......hmmm .... hmmmm...... fruit salad???

[o_zarkman44]

Wow! My mother gave me a huge stack of “Organic Gardening” Magazines from the mid 1970’s to the early 1980’s!
Can’t wait to check em out!